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It's time to play a game where we google someone and find some interesting story about them. Today's candidate is Talia:

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Environmental justice, the hard way
Eschewing the lecture hall, Dara O'Rourke's students learn about equity — and humility — from the grassroots up

By Barry Bergman, Public Affairs | 02 March 2005

Undergrads Vivian Choi and Kathleen Rubio spent part of the fall semester looking at disparities in Bay shoreline access for high- and low-income communities. Their classmates, Nina Rizzo and Charles Kirubi, helped open-space advocates in North Richmond explore locals' attitudes toward an endangered wetland, while freshman Talia Levitan led a team in puzzling out what to do when restoration efforts bump up against homeless streamside dwellers.

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Freshman Talia Levitan, who intends to major in Italian and legal studies, found environmental-justice issues cropping up even in environmentalists' efforts at stream beautification. Her project for Friends of Five Creeks, a group dedicated to restoring degraded creek areas in the East Bay, was to recommend protocols for dealing fairly with homeless people — an issue that arose when Five Creeks volunteers encountered a homeless encampment at the so-called Albany Bulb.

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